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November 11th, 2003, 11:02 AM
#1
Suggestion on architecture please
I have an ActiveX .dll created in VB6 that we are converting to .NET. We are investigating moveing to web services. So...
Should we re-create the .dll as a class library, then tie a web service to it and expose the class functions and properties, or should the complete dll be converted to a web service with functions and properties exposed. There is about 4000 lines of code with various properties and ODBC links to MS-SQL7 in the VB6 version.
I tried to rationalize either fashion through MSDN how to's etc... but can't seem to find an answer. Your suggestions and/or experiences would be appreciated.
Thanks
Paul
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November 11th, 2003, 12:42 PM
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Depends... if it's strictly going to be called thru the web, then the webservice is just fine. If it could also be used in non-web environment, then I'd create a normal DLL and then another interface to provice the webservice functionality. (Actually, I'd probably do the later regardless)... just my opinion.
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November 11th, 2003, 02:18 PM
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It's going to take roughly the same amount of time to do either conversion/re-write. Like DSJ said, the later would allow you to re-use this code in a non-web environment, which it sounds like you are doing now.
Last edited by Craig Gemmill; November 11th, 2003 at 05:35 PM.
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November 11th, 2003, 05:50 PM
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Actually, I'd probably do the later regardless
Yep, thats the route we're going to try.
Thanks for the postback guys!
Paul
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